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send in negotiator gorilla help the synths we want to see all the new
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Gorillas!
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In Soviet Institute Monkey Spank You!
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 Percy makes the obvious decision and uses the computer to release the gorillas.  They are practically immune to energy weapons, although they aren't as single-mindedly aggressive as typical Commonwealth creatures. They still do a great job eliminating the Bioscience department.  After Higgs is dead and dismembered, Percy moves in to unlock the room completely.  Unfortunately, that means shooting the gorillas himself.  Newton is grateful, but unhappy that Percy's solution turned out so violently. If only the Institute had foreseen the consequences of using advanced technology to revive an extinct species that is highly aggressive and can't be harmed by typical weapons. Someone could make a movie about that.  Percy sets off to the far eastern reaches of the Commonwealth, past even Libertalia.  He never got a chance to explore the Nahant wharf after teleporting Gabriel the killer Synth back from the area.  There's a fancy mansion flooded with feral ghouls.  This rotting feral ghoul is much tougher than any that he's encountered so far.  One rotting ghoul even incapacitates Dogmeat, the first time the dog has been seriously hurt since Percy gave him that coat of armour. (Dogmeat's health increases as Percy levels up) Then, Percy shoots down a Vertibird and it crashes close enough to deal some damage to him. That was a close call.  Soon afterwards, he encounters another one of the hazards of advancing past level 50: an extremely tough Super Mutant Primus.  The mutie boss is tough but not particularly well-armed. Percy lures it near an undamaged prewar car and then blows up the fission reactor to kill it. Level 59 perk: Perception +1 (Now 4)  Finally, he arrives at the chapel where Synths have been reportedly searching for technology.  This is it: A laser pistol that is twice as powerful as their crappy standard issue blue laser shooters. This will not affect the Institute's actual tech level in any way.  Next, Percy checks out the oceanological institute where the Institute sought information about how to make an aquatic Synth. He kills half a dozen glowing mirelurks, but sees no trace of Synths.  He meets a robot who can only spout fun facts about the ocean.  This Wasteland Survival Guide makes the trip feel worth it, although Percy owns over 15,000 caps so prices are not a major concern.  There is still some unexplored coastline to the north. To the east, the Atlantic stretches off into the horizon. What's next for Percy? Talk to the man being protected by Minutemen, explore along the coast, or find the lost Brotherhood patrol?
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Jan 28, 2020 05:47
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Deal with the Minutemen.
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Explore Along The Coast It's worked well so far.
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OOrochi posted:Explore Along The Coast It's worked well so far. Let's go beachcombing!
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Beach holiday.
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 There is still some coastline to be explored. Mirelurk Queens live on the coast. At this point they're not even a Jet-worthy threat to Percy, he kills this one with a few quick shots in the vicinity of her face.  Another vertibird attacks him and must be shot down.  Percy wisely decided not to loot the bodies because a truck near the crashed chopper caught on fire. This was a wise choice, because the truck exploded shortly afterwards.  He approaches the lighthouse and notices some human figures moving around. Judging by the many traps on the ground, they're not friendly.  They are Children of Atom, with their highly effective radiation-spewing gamma guns. Fortunately, the projectiles are slow-moving enough that it's possible to dodge them with quick reflexes.  Percy clears the house, but someone is still shooting from the lighthouse with a regular gun.  It's a Child of Atom Reborn, a tough high-level enemy. But like most high-level humans, he's armed with a puny high-powered rifle and can't match the power of the Overseer's Guardian.  The lighthouse was guarded by a caged feral ghoul. The Children of Atom were using it as a lure to find more victims for Atom's division.  More of the cultists live in a radioactive crater nearby.  They're dangerous enough to make a challenging fight. They probably can't kill Percy, unless he gets blindsided at short range by multiple gamma guns. But if he's forced to use any more Radaway, he'll become sleepy in a way that caffeine won't fix, and that would be very inconvenient. Though he's badly outnumbered, Jet always helps him battles.  Finally, he kills all the radiation worshippers. Their gamma guns are nice and valuable, and some of them carry extremely powerful nuka grenades.  Percy briefly searches the crater itself. The sun will rise soon and cleanse him of these extra rads.  Moving further up the coast, he reaches the town of Salem.  There's a man on the roof cheering and laughing and firing a rifle.  When Percy comes closer, he is ambushed by three mirelurks and easily kills them all. Level 60 perk: Locksmith Percy can now pick advanced locks.  Barney thinks Percy is a complete idiot to go wandering into a town full of mirelurks.  Percy says can handle himself, but Barney doubts that. He challenges Percy to go turn on all the machine gun turrets in town - they were turned off a while ago to save ammo, but now there are too many mirelurks for one man to clear.  Most of the turrets are in high, well-defended places, and it's easy enough to reactivate each one.  There are lots of glowing mirelurks, but all mirelurks die so quickly when shot in the face, and they must face Percy in order to attack so it's an easy battle.  He even briefly tries an automatic laser pistol he found before deciding it's too weak, and eliminates the remaining 'lurks with Experiment 18-A.  Barney gladly offers the new sniper rifle he's been working on as a reward.  It's a boring, slow-firing rifle, so Percy just leaves it in the bunker.  Next up, he visits the Sandy Coves Convalescent Home, a retirement home which is still fully staffed by Mr. Handys.  If lying to a robot is wrong, Percy doesn't want to be right.  He finds another medical magazine. Against higher-level enemies, the bonus damage to limbs may actually matter and cripple a limb at some point.  All the residents are long dead, but the robot caretakers don't seem to notice.  While Percy is searching for supplies, Synths enter the front door and shoot the receptionist as it politely greets them.  They systematically kill all the robots and search the building for useful prewar technology. Percy finds plenty of Med-X and Radaway, but nothing of interest to the Institute.  After leaving the retirement home, Percy spots a Mirelurk Queen across the bay and uses his scope to kill her.  Also in Salem is the famous Museum of Witchcraft. The Diamond City guards warned him about this place as soon as he walked in, but surely he can handle it now, right?  The front door is locked, but this mangled corpse is sitting next to a hatch into the basement.  Percy casually runs through the dark basement as deep roars shake the building and dead bodies rain down from above. gently caress you, chameleon deathclaw.  The deathclaw dies in seconds. Percy may not be able to knock enemies down like Nate, but he can kill almost anything very quickly.  He finds a pile of shattered deathclaw eggs, with one still intact. These stolen eggs must be why the high-level deathclaw was so angry.  He also finds another Grognak comic for his collection! At this rate, he'll need another shelf in Sanctuary soon.  Percy returns to the fancy manor in Nahant because there's an advanced lock on the door upstairs. He unlocks the door and walks in.  After that jump scare, where the very dangerous Legendary Putrid Glowing One fortunately fell into a hole, Percy finds a key to the basement and heads in.  It's full of high-level feral ghouls, but rapid plasma fire kills them all.  Percy finds the body of Theodore Croup. After the bombs fell, he kept his sanity while the rest of his family became feral ghouls. He had locked them in the mansion and fled, then returned after learning that feral ghouls don't attack regular ghouls. But despite centuries of effort, he could never teach his family to act human again.  Percy returns to Diamond City to stock up on ammo and chems again, and get a temporary fix for his many addictions.  In this city he could surely find a place to sell the deathclaw egg, or he could return the egg to its original nest. Next up, should he resolve the Institute-Minutemen standoff, help Nick with his detective work, or track down the lost patrol?
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Return the egg (for SCIENCE!), end the standoff.
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Return the Egg and Resolve the Standoff We've seem Nick already, and the BOS are jerks.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Return the egg (for SCIENCE!), end the standoff.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Return the egg (for SCIENCE!), end the standoff. This. We can't make our Minutemen wait a second more.
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Sell the egg. (to buy more drugs) Then, resolve the standoff.
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OOrochi posted:Return the Egg and Resolve the Standoff
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BisbyWorl posted:Sell the egg. (to buy more drugs) This.
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Commander Keene posted:Resolve the standoff. We've already seen Nick's detective work, and since we're enemies with the Brotherhood (apparently permanently), there's no sense in rescuing a patrol of guys who will probably end up getting killed by us at some point. That quest hasn't failed yet, so I assume there's an alternate resolution like telling the Institute to salvage their corpses or something. Maybe not.  Percy will need more charisma to defuse the tense standoff, so he buys some bottles of beer before leaving Diamond City.  But first, he's heading to the northern edge of the Commonwealth to find a deathclaw nest.  According to Institute documents, they have mastered the creation of avian synths. Are all birds Institute observers, or just some of them? Who knows.  Percy finds this valuable weapon by killing a Super Mutant outside Medford Memorial Hospital. He has an old note from a dead scavenger that mentioned this building should have some interesting scrap in it.  He tests it out on a Legendary Glowing Mongrel, since missiles are too heavy to be worth carrying around to sell. The missile doesn't kill it, but it does cripple the legs and make it easy to shoot. Level 61 perk: Locksmith 2 (Level 7, 4 Perception) Percy can now pick Expert locks. He has so much money that loot hardly matters to him, but it's always fun to find new stuff.  He finds the deathclaw nest and returns the egg. A high-level deathclaw walks up to him but does not attack - it simply reburies the egg in a bed of leaves and sticks.  This is the first time Percy has seen a deathclaw that wasn't trying to kill him, so he lets it be and walks off.  After a quick teleportation, he arrives at the house where Institute agents are besieged by a group of Minutemen. No one has fired a shot yet, and Percy drinks a beer and takes some Day Tripper to make sure it stays that way.  The Minuteman sergeant wants to storm the house, kill the Institute squad, and rescue the citizen locked up inside. If we don't do something, they're going to take that poor guy... wherever it is they go, and we'll have failed. Again.  Thanks to his chem-induced Charisma boost, Percy successfully convinces the Minutemen there's no need for violence. The Institute wants the same things you do. We can find a way to work together.  Inside, Percy meets the Institute putz named Enrico, who can't handle a simple Commonwealth kidnapping without causing a diplomatic crisis.  Mr. Wallace is behind a locked door and refuses to go peacefully. The Institute has been watching him for a long time and knows that his intelligence and engineering skills would make him a valuable asset.  Percy convinces him to calm down and at least hear out the Institute's offer.  Wallace is tempted by the prospect of advanced scientific research, and agrees to go with the Institute willingly. The Minutemen outside stand down. Enrico tells Percy, [i]Thanks. I mean, thanks for the assist.  The General of the Minutemen and future Director of the Institute didn't get his titles by doing dumb tasks for subordinates! (Oh, wait, yes he did)  Percy immediately teleports back to the Institute. The new guy is quite the prodigy, having already found improvements to multiple Institute systems over the past ten seconds.  Father wants Percy to write a speech formally announcing the Institute's presence to the Commonwealth. Percy can suggest a few tweaks to the script: For years now, you have suspected that the Institute still exists - that we are among you. It is true, but it is not the whole truth. We are here, and we are in control/here to help/your masters/the future. Our superior technology represents the future of the Commonwealth. Today, we activate our nuclear reactor, ensuring that we will persevere long after the world above ground ceases to exist - ensuring that mankind has a future. We have no desire to interfere in the unimportant details of your pointless struggles/personal freedoms/pathetic existences/daily lives. We simply insist that you do not interfere with Institute operations. To do so would result in unnecessary difficulties/tragedy for all/your annihilation/dire consequences. Rest easy. Know that the future is looking bright/underground/out of your control/in safe hands and that mankind will thrive under our guidance. After making the speech, should Percy set up the radio transmitter, look for scrap in Medford Memorial hospital, or find the lost Brotherhood patrol?
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the future daily lives tragedy for all in safe hands And let's go set up the transmitter.
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Your masters, pathetic existence, your annihilation, out of your control. Set up transmitter. Let's go full mad scientist. Foul Ole Ron fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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Percy seems like a pretty chill dude, I don't think he's gonna pick a fight with the entire Commonwealth just for shits and giggles. He likes to help people! Look at all the drugs he got for that nice old lady! Here to help personal freedoms tragedy for all looking bright Afterwards, set up the transmitter
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Here to help Yeah, I'm with DCB on this.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Percy seems like a pretty chill dude, I don't think he's gonna pick a fight with the entire Commonwealth just for shits and giggles. He likes to help people! Look at all the drugs he got for that nice old lady!
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Percy seems like a pretty chill dude, I don't think he's gonna pick a fight with the entire Commonwealth just for shits and giggles. He likes to help people! Look at all the drugs he got for that nice old lady! What's their deal, anyway? I assume they have a base somewhere with their giant gently caress-off airship?
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Here to Help Personal Freedoms Your Annihilation Looking Bright Percy doesn't want to go full mad scientist, but that psycho use still slips out occasionally. And Set Up the Transmitter
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The boost while running, more synths, attack brotherhood. Sigh... one day my mad scientists run will be a thing.
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RudeCat posted:Pump up the bots This.
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